Thanks everyone for the help, or at least for moral support ;-)

Vivek, you are correct (I wish someone had pointed out loader.conf
earlier). I finally discovered loader.conf last night and managed to
figure out what I need to do.

As stated earlier, I had found the device is supported by uftdi driver.
I was able to copy the uftdi.ko from my freeBSD 6.2-Release box, put it
in /boot/kernel, and then modify /boot/loader.conf to load it. The
device now properly comes up as /dev/ttyU0 and works great!
(it is, IIRC, loaded as a ucom device as noted by the system.log)

this is *very* good news for me, as I was hoping to get this going fast
and not need to rebuild the flash image or kernel ;-)

"mount -uw /" is my best friend. 
Now I just need to do some crontab work...

-Chris

--- Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Chris Buechler wrote:
> 
> >> on my other (recently setup) BSD system, which is: FreeBSD 6.2-
> >> RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007
> >> I see in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb that uftdi.c and "usbdevs" contain a
> >> definition for this device.
> >
> > I'm not sure exactly what kernel change would be necessary to add
> > this. What does it show up as in dmesg on a stock FreeBSD system?
> 
> The driver needed depends on the device.  I have one which requires
> the uplcom driver loaded (I pull it in as a module in /boot/
> loader.conf)  Others may require umct, uvscom, or just ucom.  I
> suppose some might require some other driver, too.  The man page for
> ucom list all the additional drivers you may need.
> 



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